Notebooks & Netbooks

[slouchez]

I don't have the option D2D listed in the BIOS >> Main - so I can't turn it on :-)

and going to F10 while booting has no effect. 

When I examine the disk (out of the computer) I do see drives C: and RECOVERY(Y

so I'm wondering what to do next?

[IronFly]

ALT+F10

to start recovery

if this not work, a workaround (since you can check the HDD from another PC) would be to make Recovery partition as primary and bootable and check if the E1 is able to boot from recovery.

[slouchez · Accepted solution]

Thanks I tried this "brute force" method by running GParted - but there was "no screen available" when GParted loaded (!) so I couldn't go any further

However in the process of trying different BIOS settings (Legacy vs UEFI) I got the option D2D to appear.

After enabling the option and AltF10 I got into a set of custom screens - must be the entity "Windows Boot Manager" taking over - and I got to the options to restore the computer. DONE!

My first brush with UEFI... Thanks